[libvirt-dbus PATCH 9/9] spec: Pick documentation from installation directory
Andrea Bolognani
abologna at redhat.com
Mon Apr 27 12:51:52 UTC 2020
On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 14:39 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:59:46PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > %files
> > -%doc AUTHORS.rst NEWS.rst
> > -%license COPYING
> > +%doc %{_docdir}/%{name}/AUTHORS.rst
> > +%doc %{_docdir}/%{name}/NEWS.rst
> > +%license %{_docdir}/%{name}/COPYING
>
> This patch will change the location of COPYING file from
>
> /usr/share/licenses/libvirt-dbus/COPYING
>
> to
>
> /usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/COPYING
>
> Which is probably OK but the preferred location is the licenses
> directory. I would like to keep this behavior for RPM packages
> which means move the file in the %install phase or using this:
>
> %exclude %{_docdir}/%{name}/COPYING
> %license COPYING
That's a nuance of RPM packaging that I completely missed.
I'll squash in the %exclude trick you suggest and verify that the
file actually ends up in the expected location before pushing.
Thanks for the speedy review! :)
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
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